Mr. Manners paused to draw breath. Obviously he was enjoying himself enormously. He was a born lecturer, and somehow the rather pompous sentences were strangely alive and strangely interesting. Above all, they fascinated and amazed the prelate at the head of the table, for they revealed to him an advance of thought, and an assurance in the position they described, that seemed wholly inexplicable. Such phrases as "all educated men," "the well-informed," and the rest--these were vaguely familiar to him, yet surely in a very different connection. He had at the back of his mind a kind of idea that these were the phrases that the irreligious or the agnostics applied to themselves; yet here was a man, obviously a student, and a statesman as he knew, calmly assuming (scarcely even giving himself the trouble to state) that all educated and well-informed persons were Catholic Christians! He settled himself down to listen with renewed interest as Mr. Manners began once more. "Well," he said, "to come more directly to our point; let us next consider what were those steps and processes by which Catholic truth once more became the religion of the civilized world, as it had been five centuries earlier. "And first we must remark that, even at the very beginning of this century, popular thought--in England as elsewhere--had retraced its steps so far as to acknowledge that if Christianity were true--true, really and actually--the Catholic Church was the only possible embodiment of it. Not only did the shrewdest agnostic minds of the time acknowledge this--such men as Huxley in the previous century, Sir Leslie Stephen, Mallock, and scores of others--but even popular Christianity itself began to turn in that direction. Of course there were survivals and reactions, as we should expect. There was a small body of Christians in England called Anglicans, who attempted to hold another view; there was that short-lived movement called Modernism, that held yet a third position. But, for the rest, it was as I say. "It was the Catholic Church or nothing. And just for a few years it seemed humanly possible that it might be nothing. "And now for the causes of the revival. "Briefly, I should say they were all included under one head--the correlation of sciences and their coincidence into one point. Let us take them one by one. We have only time to glance very superficially at each. "First there was Psychology.